Bottle-closure.



` I PATENTED'APR. 14, 19O3.`I C. vW. SCOTT, C. E. SHIPLEY & H. HUGHES.

BOTTLE GLUSURE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

/N VEA/Tops 500%,

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CHARLES W. SCOTT, OF SARATOGA, WYOMING; CHARLES E. SHIPLEY, OF DENVER, COLORADO, AND HIRAM HUGHES, OF SARATOGA, VJYOMING.

BOTTLE-CLOSU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Iletters Patent 0. 725,153, dated April 14, 1903.

Application filed August 9, 1902. .Serial No. 119,096. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern,.- outer end of the chamber E after the ball H Be it known that We, CHARLES W. SCOTT, has been inserted. This ring I, it will be unresiding at Saratoga, in the county of Carbon derstood, may be held in the stopper B by 4 and State of Wyoming, CHARLES E. SHIPLEY, 'cement or other suitable means and forms a 55 5 residing at Denver, in the county of Arapavalve-seat for the ball H in the position of hoe and State of Colorado,and HIRAM HUGHES, parts shown in Fig. 1. residing at Saratoga, in the county of Carbon When the parts are in the position shown and State of Wyoming, citizens of the United in Fig. the valve H will be seated against States, have made certain new and useful Imthering I. If the bottle be now turned to dis- 6o 1o provements in Bottle-Closures, of which the pense its contents, the ball H will pass to the following is a specification. inner end of the ohamberE', as shown in Fig. This invention is an improvement in clo- 2, and the liquid can pass through the ring I, sures for bottles, jars, and the like; and the thence` through the lateral port G, thence invention consists in certain novel constructhrough the groove F and a lateral port D', 65 x5 tions and combinations of parts, as will be and discharge at D at the outer end of the hereinafter described and claimed. bottle. It will be noticed. the valve F is In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal formed in the outer side of the plug or stopsection of our invention as in use withA the per, andthe liquid will flow entirely around valve seated. Fig. 2 is a similar View with` the plug or stopper in discharging from the 7o 2o the bottle partially inverted to permit the conbottle.4

tents to be dispensed, the course of the liquid The plug or stopper may be made of Wood, being indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a porcelain, or other suitable material and beside view of the stopper, and Fig. 4. isa View .ing similar in shape to the ordinary cork of the inner end thereof. stopper will t in ordinary bottles and can be 75 2 5 The bottle, whether it be an ordinary botapplied for use wherever desired. It will be tle, jug, jar, or other vessel, is provided with noticed from Figs. 1, 2, and 3 that the lateral a neck A, which may be of ordinary construcopenings D and G are arranged on the same tion, and the lug or stopper B is tted in said side of the plug or inline with each other, so neck and is in practice secured therein, usuthe liquid in dispensing the same passes en- 8o 3o ally by oementing it within the neck, as intirelyaround the plugbetween theinneropendicated at C in Figs. 1 and 2. The stopper ing G and the outer opening D'.

may be tapered toward its inner end,as shown, Having thus described our invention, what is provided in its outer end with a discharge- `We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letoriice D, and at its inner end with a dischargeters Patent, is- 85 3 5 orifice E, which is prolonged at E toward the -1. The combination substantially as hereouter end of the stopper, as shown in Figs. 1 indescribed, of the plug provided in its outer and 2, to form a chamber in which the ball- Aend with a discharge-orice and with an orivalve may be held when the bottle is inverted, tice in its inner end, and a valve-chamiber eX- as indicated in Fig. 2. A lateral channel D tending therefrom toward the outer end of 9o 4o leads from the orifice D to the side of the the plug, and with a lateral orifice communistopper B and communicates at its outer end eating with said valve-chamber between the with the outer end of a groove F, formed spiinner and outer ends thereof, a lateral pasrally in the outer side of the stopper B and sage communicating with the outer or discommunicating at its end F' with a lateral charge orifice of the plug, anda spiral groove 95 45 opening G, which leads into the chamber E or channel formed in the outer side ofv the between the inner end e of said chamber and plug and communicating at its inner end with the outer end of such chamber or the orifice the lateral orifice leading to the valve-cham E, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The ballber, and at its outer end with the lateral chanvalVeH operates in the chamber E and seats nel leading to the discharge-orifice, the ball im.;

5o in the position shown in Fig. 1 against the in the valve chamber and the ring fitting inner end of a ring I, which is fitted in the within said chamberat the end thereof,whereby to retain the valve and form a seat therefor, substantially as set forth.

2. A stopper provided in its outer side with ya spiral groove or channel and having at its inner end a valve-chamber and a lateral opening connecting the chamber with the spiral groove and communicating with the valvechamber between its inner and outer ends, the ring fitted in said chamber between the lateral lopening and the inner end of the stopper and the valve operating between said ring and the inner end of the valve-chamber and movable in the inverted position of thestopper beyond the lateral opening into the valvechamber substantially as set forth.

3. Auping or stopper provided in one side with lateral openings arranged approximately in line With each other and in its outer side with a spiral groove connecting said openings, a valve-chamber with which the inner end of said groove communicates, a valve operating in said chamber and having in the outer end of the plug a discharge-orifice communicating With the outer lateral opening, substantially as set forth.

4. A plug or stopper provided at its inner end with a valVe-chamber,and having alateral opening communicating with said chamber, between its inner and outer ends, and having a valve-seat between said lateral opening and the inner end of the plug, the Valve operating in said chamber, and moving in the inverted position of the plug beyond the lateral opening into the valve-chamber, the plug being provided in its outer side with a spiral groove or channel communicating at its inner end with the said lateral opening and at its outer end with a discharge-opening, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

CHARLES W. SCOTT. CHARLES E. SHIPLEY. HIRAM HUGHES.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. SALE, J0. A. FoWLER, WILLIAM E. ANDREWS, JAMES B. DELANEY. 

